David Throsby

Title: Distinguished Professor

Position: Professor of Economics - Department of Economics

Qualifications: Bachelor of Science (Agriculture), University of Sydney; Master of Science (Agriculture), University of Sydney; Doctor of Philosophy, London School of Economics; Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Profile

Professor David Throsby AO is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at Macquarie University. He is internationally known for his work as an economist with specialist interests in the economics of the arts and culture. He holds Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Sydney and a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics. Professor Throsby's research interests include the role of culture in economic development, the economic situation of individual artists, the economics of the performing arts, the creative industries, the economics of heritage and the relationship between cultural and economic policy. He has published several books and a large number of reports and journal articles in these areas, as well as in the economics of education and the economics of the environment. His book Economics and Culture, published by Cambridge University Press in 2001, has been translated into eight languages.

Recent research-related publications include Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture Vol. 2 (Elsevier/North Holland, 2014) co-edited with Victor Ginsburgh. He also co-edited, with Michael Hutter, Beyond Price: Value in Culture, Economics and the Arts (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Professor Throsby's latest book, The Economics of Cultural Policy, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010.

David Throsby has been a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia since 1987, and was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the Association for Cultural Economics International in 2008. During a career spanning employment in both government and academia, he has been chair or member of a number of boards and committees at both national and international levels. He has also been a consultant to a number of international organisations including FAO, UNCTAD, UNESCO, OECD, and the World Bank. He is a member of several Editorial Boards, including the Journal of Cultural Economics, the International Journal of Cultural Policy, Poetics, the Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management and the Journal of Cultural Property.

In January 2014, David Throsby was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the community as a leading cultural economist, to the promotion and preservation of Australian arts and heritage, and to tertiary education.

In addition to his academic work, he has also written several plays, one of which was produced at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1975. He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy: (London School of Economics)

Master of Science: Agriculture (University of Sydney)

Bachelor of Science: Agriculture (University of Sydney)

Research grants

Research Grants/Projects since 2000

ARC Discovery Project, 2013, Project on the book industry and the impact of e-books on authors, publishers, readers.

ARC, Discovery Grant, 2012-15, for a project on the Indigenous art economy in two regions of Northern Australia, with Howard Morphy (ANU).

Commonwealth Environmental Research Facility, Environmental Economics Hub, 2009-12 for a project on methodology for assessing the value of cultural heritage.

Australia Council for the Arts, 2009-10, for updated economic study on Australian practising professional artists.

NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, UK) 2009-10, for research on the role of new technologies in cultural institutions, with Hasan Bakhshi.

Rockefeller Foundation, New York 2004-06, for project on Value and Valuation in Arts and Culture (Team Residency at Bellagio Study and Conference Centre, Italy).

Columbia University, New York 2003-05, for research project on Career Transition of Professional Dancers, with William Baumol and Joan Jeffri.

Australia Council 2001-03, for economic study on Australian practising professional artists.

Affiliations / activities

Committee/Board Membership

Professor Throsby has held numerous positions on Boards and Committees, including President of the NSW Branches of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society and the Economic Society of Australia, President of the Association for Cultural Economics International, and Foundation Chair of the National Association for the Visual Arts. He has served on the Boards of the Australian Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Copyright Agency Limited and VISCOPY. Professor Throsby chaired three of the Working Groups in the Prime Minister's Ecologically Sustainable Development Process in 1991-93. He was a member of the Scientific Committees for both the first and the second World Culture Reports for UNESCO in 1998-2000.

2004, Zulfiqar Bashir, "The Effects of Economic Reform on Agriculture and Agricultural Trade in India and Pakistan"

Publications since 2005

2014

Ginsburgh, Victor A. and David Throsby (2014) (eds.) Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture Vol. 2, Oxford: North-Holland.

Ginsburgh, Victor A. and David Throsby (2014) 'Introduction and overview', in Victor A Ginsburgh and David Throsby (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture Vol. 2, Oxford: North-Holland, pp. 1-12.

Throsby, David and Anita Zednik (2014) 'The economic and cultural value of paintings: Some empirical evidence', in Victor A Ginsburgh and David Throsby (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture Vol. 2, Oxford: North-Holland, pp. 81-99.

Throsby, David (2014), 'The role of culture in sustainable urban development: Some economic issues', International Journal of Global Environmental Issues. 13(2-4): 89-99.

Throsby, David (2014), 'Creative and cultural industries and their economic potential' in Proceedings of an International Conference on the Notion of Culture as a Force for Economic Growth: New Approach for South Caucasus, Tbilisi, September, 2013 (forthcoming).

Throsby, David (2012), 'Article 13: Integration of culture in sustainable development', in Sabine von Schorlemer and Peter-Tobias Stoll, eds., The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions: Explanatory Notes, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 361-370.

Throsby, David (2012), 'Sustainable development and the Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions', in Toshiyuki Kono and Steven Van Uytsel (eds.), The UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions: A Tale of Fragmentation in International Law, Cambridge: Intersentia, pp. 353-361.

Throsby, David (2011), 'The contribution of culture to Europe 2020 : Some key issues', in The Contribution of Culture to the Implementation of the Europe 2020 Strategy, Budapest : Kulturpont Iroda, pp. 15-17.

Throsby, David (2011), 'Assemblage of idiots'. Review of Johns, Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. In Australian Book Review No. 328, February, pp. 19-20.

Bakhshi, Hasan, Juan Mateos-Garcia and David Throsby (2010), Beyond Live : Digital Innovation in the Performing Arts. London : National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), 11 pp.

Bakhshi, Hasan and David Throsby (2010), Culture of Innovation: An Economic Analysis of Innovation in Arts and Cultural Organisations. London : National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), 89 pp.

Throsby, David and Anita Zednik (2010), Do You Really Expect to Get Paid ? An Economic Study of Professional Artists in Australia. Sydney : Australia Council. ISBN : 978-1-920784-56-0, 144 pp.

Throsby, David (2010), 'Economic analysis of architectural heritage : What can economics tell us ?' in Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Architecture Heritage Preservation and Sustainable Development, Tianjin : Tianjin University Press, pp. 3-4.

Throsby, David (2009), 'Cultural networking in the twenty-first century : Some priority areas for research and information exchange', in Proceedings of an International Conference on Cultural Development and Information Networking, Seoul, Korea, 4 November 2009, pp. 5-10.

Throsby, David (2008), 'A new "moment" for cultural policy', in Lisa Andersen and Kate Oakley (eds.), Making Money, Making Meaning: Directions for the Arts and Cultural Industries in the Creative Age, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Throsby, David (2008), 'Globalization and the cultural economy: a crisis of value?', in Helmut Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar (eds.), The Cultural Economy. Cultures and Globalization Series Vol. II., London: Sage, pp. 29–41,

Throsby, David (2008) 'Arts, economics of ', in New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics London: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Hutter, Michael and David Throsby (2008) 'Value and valuation in art and culture: introduction and overview', in Michael Hutter and David Throsby (eds.), Beyond Price: Value in Culture Economics, and the Arts, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–19,

Throsby, David (2008), 'The creation of value by artists: The case of Hector Berlioz and the Symphonie Fantastique', in Hutter and Throsby, eds., op. cit., 75–88.

Throsby, David (2008), Creative Australia: The Arts and Culture in Australian Work and Leisure, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Occasional Paper 3/2008.

Throsby, David, (2008), 'Culture in sustainable development: Insights for the future implementation of Art. 13', Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, Paris: UNESCO.

Jeffri, Joan and David Throsby (2006), 'Life after dance: career transition of professional dancers,' International Journal of Arts Management 8(3). 54–63.

Throsby, David (2006) 'An artistic production function: Theory and an application to Australian visual artists', Journal of Cultural Economics, 30(1): 1–14.

Throsby, David (2006), 'Introduction and overview', in Victor A. Ginsburgh and David Throsby (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, pp. 33–22.

Bryant, William D.A. and David Throsby (2006), 'Creativity and the behavior of artists', in Victor A. Ginsburgh and David Throsby (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, pp. 508–529.

Rizzo, Ilde and David Throsby (2006), 'Cultural heritage: economic analysis and public policy', in Victor A. Ginsburgh and David Throsby (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, pp. 984–1016

Throsby, David (2006), 'The economics of the creative city: iconic architecture and the urban experience', in Robert Freestone, Bill Randolph and Caroline Butler-Bowdon (eds.), Talking about Sydney: Population, Community and Culture in Contemporary Sydney, Sydney: University of NSW Press, pp.149-162.

Throsby, David (2006) 'Paying for the Past: Economics, Cultural Heritage and Public Policy' The University of Adelaide Joseph Fisher Lecture, 16 August 2006.

Throsby, David (2006), 'The value of cultural heritage: what can economics tell us?', in Kate Clark, ed., Capturing the Public Value of Heritage. The Proceedings of the London Conference 25–26 January. London: English Heritage, pp. 40–43.

Throsby, David (2006), 'Economic aspects of arts education', invited paper given at World Conference on Arts Education, Building Creative Capacities for the 21st Century, Lisbon, Portugal, 7 March. Published at: http://portal.unesco.org/culture/es/file_download.php/93ed02cc5fb1c52daaa5f15cad4483d3David+Throsby.pdf

Throsby, David (2006), Review of Schabas The Natural Origins of Economics, appearing in Times Literary Supplement.